A product on your Tradenames page is not yours. Two farms spraying the same product out of the same kind of drum are looking at the same record, and when one of them is corrected, both are.
That one fact explains everything on this page that surprises people: why the list contains products you have never bought, why Save does not save, and why you cannot add an active ingredient at all.
Why the list is shared
What Intecrop stores against a product is not an opinion. A litre of it contains a certain amount of a certain active ingredient, the label says so, and that is true on every farm in the country.
If every farm kept its own copy, the same drum would end up recorded ten slightly different ways — one farm's 360 g/L against another's 280 g/kg, one spelling the active ingredient one way and one another. Every number worked out across farms would then be comparing things that are not the same, and none of it would say so.
So the record is kept once. The concentration, the formulation, the withholding period and the resistance group belong to the product, not to the farm that happened to type them in.
What you can see
Your list holds two kinds of product:
- The shared ones, which every farm on Intecrop can see and use.
- The ones added for your farm alone — typically a blend mixed to your own prescription, which no other farm has any use for.
So a shorter list than you expected is not a broken list. It is the shared products plus yours, and nothing belonging to anybody else.
Adding one is asking, not doing
Fill in the New form, press Save, and nothing appears on your list.
That is not a failure. Adding a product to a list every farm reads is not a change you can make on your own, so what you submitted is a request. An Intecrop administrator reads it and decides. The same is true of editing a product you can already see: the change goes off as a request rather than landing on the record, because that record is in use on farms that are not yours.
It is worth saying plainly, because it is the step people miss: a product you requested cannot be recorded against an application until it has been approved. If you are adding products ahead of a spray, add them a day ahead.
Where your request stands
The bell in the top right of every page. The number on it is how many of your requests have been decided since you last looked, and opening it clears the number.
Each request shows as one of:
- Pending review — submitted, not yet looked at.
- Approved — the product is on your list now, under the name in the request.
- Not approved — with the reason underneath it. Usually the product already exists under a different name, or something on the form contradicts the label.
Approved for everyone, or just for you
The administrator makes that call, and it is usually obvious which way it goes. A registered product that anyone can buy off a shelf becomes a shared one. A blend mixed to your prescription is added for your farm alone, because it would be noise on every other farm's list.
Either way it behaves the same on your farm. The difference only shows in who else can see it.
Active ingredients are stricter still
You can choose an active ingredient on the form. You cannot create one, and that is a deliberate wall rather than a missing feature.
The active ingredient is what the serious reporting is grouped by — resistance groups, withholding periods, how much of a given active went onto a block over a season. All of that works by matching one ingredient record across every product that contains it. One duplicate under a slightly different spelling splits those reports in two without any warning that it has happened, and the split is very hard to see afterwards.
So the ingredient list stays with the administrators. If a label names something Intecrop does not have yet, the name still travels with your request, and the administrator reviewing it sees exactly what you read off the label.
Reading the label instead of typing it
The New form can fill itself in from a photograph or a PDF of the label.
What comes back is a draft. It is filled into a form rather than saved for exactly the reason above — a product record is shared, so it is worth two people looking at it before it becomes a number in anybody's report. Check what came back against the drum in front of you, correct anything that is wrong, then submit it.
Where the label genuinely does not say something, the field comes back blank. That is on purpose: an empty field is one you can see and fill in, and a confidently wrong one is not.